GOING DEEPER: The Danish company called on the government to initiate a pilot project for floating wind farms to open up capacity and minimize controversies
Taipei Times
Date: Dec 05, 2020
By: Angelica Oung / Staff reporter
Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners K/S Taiwan Round 3 Projects chief executive Jesper Krarup Holst, right, talks about the company’s new offshore wind farm projects at a news conference in Taipei yesterday as project office director Marina Hsu looks on.
Photo courtesy of Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners
Together, the six sites add up to 6.3 gigawatts (GW) in potential capacity.
Four of the proposed sites are in waters more than 50m deep — the limit for fixed-bottom turbine technology.
While floating turbine technology is still in the experimental phase, CIP Taiwan Round 3 Projects chief executive Jesper Krarup Holst described the decision to go into deeper waters as a “no brainer” and urged the government to initiate a pilot project for floating wind farms.
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